la musica

Cleaning and doing small things around the apartment whilst listening to Jamie Cullum and John Mayer. Should do that more often... :) I ♥ spotify!

I have the best little sister

Not only did she make me come out of my hiding and actually do something today but she also gave me more super cute baby clothes :) Baby says "thanks auntie"! ♥

Mood board #09 - ready for baby

4 days till due date. Please baby, be on time! :)

Pictures from NameIt, Lindex, Lekmer, Natusan, ImseVimse, MAM and NotesbyCecilia in collage by me.

ready, set, pancakes!

Yuuum! :) Why don't we make pancakes more often?? With cold milk, naturally!

getting ready

Got the packing list done and the baby's things ready. It's harder to start packing all of my stuff... I'm still using most of it. Anyways. 11 days till due date! :)

seasonals

Did I ever mention I love strawberries?? Boy, do I! I wonder though, how, when I hulled 4 liters of them, there's only 3 liters left when I'm done? Well, now I just need to figure out what to do with them. Cordial, compote, pie, cake... so many options. Already made jam. Maybe we'll just have them as they are, with milk+cream. So yummy! :)

Ideas? What do you make with strawberries?

such a productive day yesterday

My last endeavour yesterday was to save some frozen strawberries from last summer. Strawberry jam. Let me put it this way: Had I known it was this simple to make my own jam... well, then I would never have bought a single jar, ever. So much better + without the weird additives. And I love the jars! The two in the first picture are new additions to my collection and from my local grocery store. The others are old jars that I bought with jam and that are now filled with something much better :) Beautiful recycling.

Bread experiment

Today I wanted to make a new kind of bread but really didn't feel like scanning cookbooks and/or the internet. So I just made my own recipe instead. We'll see if it turns out :)

pineapple.banana.nectarine.orange

Last night was all about an exotic snack whilst watching a bunch of episodes of Hawaii Five-O. Every once in a while it's nice with an evening of doing just nothing of importance... :) And with a good tv-series it's not even hard...

as of yesterday

I've started baking my own bread again (yay). It's been a while due to lack of energy. I'm not sure I have all that much more energy now, but I'm sooo over store-bought that there's just nothing left to do. And I love it. Yesterday morning I got up early and made fresh bread for a (late) brekkie. This morning I made another batch. Crossing my fingers that I can keep it up! Last night we had strawberries with cream. That was just life-changing (as one of my friends would put it) so I had to throw in a picture :)

S U M M E R ♥

Now, it is definitely summer! Absolutely LOVE it! :) This weekend has been a "long weekend" here in Sweden due to two public holidays. From the feast of the ascension last Thursday until today, which is the Swedish National Day. I've made sure to enjoy these 5 gorgeous days off work. Friends, sun, swimming, bbq's, sleeping, movies, shopping... well all things good, except blogging... :) Bit sad to start work again tomorrow but only 5 weeks to go, after that I'm outta there! :) Note to self: Bring summer inside - pick a huge bunch of lupines+buttercups.

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So I'm back to blogging again. Probably not as much as before, but I think I've given this enough thought and yes, I do want to blog. At some level at least. So here I am. Will try and do my very best. There's a lot going on in my life. Most of all this:

:) Due on August 16th.

But no worries. It's not all going to be baby-related from now on, just a little bit more.

that time of year...

which holds such an amazing abundance of flowers and sun and wonderfulness. Mum and I picked lilies of the valley yesterday, at the best spot ever. The lovely scent now fills our apartment. Especially the kitchen. Oh. The kitchen which calls for some serious blogging :) All renovated and new. And perfect. Hang in there...!

- starting early -

Love it! :) Just couldn't wait for December. Had to stop by the grocery shop and get some gingerbread cookies and julmust.

The best snack ever

has got to be fruit salad! Definitely! I should go make myself some right now. And then watch a movie. Yes, that's it.

Here's how to make one for yourself! :) Oh, and make sure you eat it with whipped cream. It's the best.

No longer on my to-see-list

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Yesterday I saw the first film in the Underworld Trilogy. It's about vampires and werewolves. For a movie about "such creatures" it was probably an ok movie. But really it confirmed the fact that although I'm really into genres such as action, fantasy, sci-fi, adventure (all of which fit with the Underworld movies), I'm just really not into vampires. Or werewolves. The question is whether to watch the following two movies...

She looks really good though... Kate Beckinsale. :)

Finally home...

Now I'm enjoying a nice cup hot chocolate :) With chocolate and whipped cream... :) Yum!

Yay! New episode of Gossip Girl out! I'm gone. :)

And boy do I need it after a day like this...

Veggie soup recipe!

I'm enjoying seconds even as I post this... :)

Click to enlarge!

Recipe is coming! Soon! :) I just got a lot more work this week that I reckoned.